[9701] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Microsoft IE -- it just gets better and better
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BearHeart / Bill Weinman)
Sat Jan 27 16:19:51 1996
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 14:57:44 -0600
To: www-talk@w3.org
From: BearHeart / Bill Weinman <bearheart@bearnet.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
>Could most of this be handled with media type registration? E.g., if
>Netscape were to accept: text/html and text/netscape-2.0-html, then
>Microsoft's browser could express its willingness to accept either or
>both. Is this a workable solution?
I would like to see tighter granularity than that. It seems
to me to be a problem that will need to be addressed on both the
HTTP and HTML levels.
Example:
The Accept string, or perhaps a new tag of some sort, would
give a list of features that the client can render. (It seems
inappropriate to define lots of new MIME-types for this.)
Then the content could be coded with conditionals that would
give either low-level or feature-rich content on an object-by-object
basis.
That way I wouldn't have to have entirely different source
for all the different combinations of support implemented by
all the different browsers.
I hear that Marc Hedlund and Brian Behlendorf are working
on such a proposal.
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